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From: mike@ists (Mike Clarkson)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,news.misc
Subject: Re: bashing on AT&T ( was Re: The rebirth of USENET)
Message-ID: <150@ists>
Date: 19 Jun 88 02:36:40 GMT
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Organization: Institute for Space and Terrestrial Science
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Why doesn't AT&T just publish artificially high costs in the maps for their
sites?  Most mailers on Usenet that originate high volumes of mail use
pathalias, and this would drop their traffic a lot.  Their mail could
still move in and out, and most other mail would move around it.

Seems silly to start patching smail to accomodate a one way flow.
All they would have to do is make sure the Usenet machines they talk to
do automatic rerouting (which I abhore based) on the high-cost paths database.

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